Introduction to Pediatric Course PED - 474 Professor Ibrahim H. Al Ayed, Professor of Paediatrics,...

Introduction to Pediatric CoursePED - 474

Professor Ibrahim H. Al Ayed, Professor of Paediatrics, College of Medicine

King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Introduction to Pediatric Course PED - 474

• What is Pediatrics?• Course objectives specification• Teaching/Learning activities• Course dates• Course evaluation and assessment• Course books, resources, reference & websites• Class manners• Other matters

What is Pediatrics?

Pediatrics is a branch of medicine dealing with the

health and medical care of infants, children and

adolescents from birth up to the age of 18. The word

“peadiatrics” means “healer of children”; they are

derived from two Greek word: (pais = child) and (iatros =

doctor or healer). Paediatrics is a relatively new medical

specialty, developing only in the mid-19th century.

Abraham Jacobi (1830 – 1919) is known as the father of

paediatrics.

Introduction to Pediatric Course by Prof. I. Alayed

What does a pediatrician do?

A paediatrician is a child’s physician who

provides not only medical care for children who

are acutely or chronically ill but also preventive

health services for healthy children. A

peadiatrician manages physical, mental and

emotional well-being of the children under

their care at every stage of development, in

both sickness and health.


Aims of Pediatrics

The aims of the study of paediatrics is to reduce infant and child

rate of deaths, control the spread of infectious disease, promote

healthy lifestyles for a long disease-free life and help ease the

problems of children and adolescents with chronic conditions.

Paediatrics diagnose and treat several conditions among children

including:

• Injuries

• Infections

• Genetic and congenital conditions

• Cancers

• Organ diseases and dysfunctions


Paediatricians is concerned not only about immediate

management of the ill child but also long term effects on quality

of life, disability and survival. Paediatricians are involved with the

prevention, early detection and management of problem

including:

• Developmental delays and disorders

• Behavioral problems

• Functional disabilities

• Social stress

• Organ diseases and dysfunctions


How does pediatrics differ from adult medicine?

Peadiatrics is different from adult medicine in more ways than one.

The smaller body of an infant or neonate or a child is substantially

different physiologically from that of an adult. So treating children is

not like treating a miniature adult.

Congenital defects, genetic variance and developmental issues are

of greater concern to pediatrician than physicians treating adults. In

addition, there are several legal issues in paediatrics. Children are

minors and in most jurisdictions, cannot make decisions for

themselves. The issues of guardianship, privacy, legal responsibility

and informed consent should be considered in every pediatric

procedure.


The Seven Ages of Children

• Newborn, neonate first month of life• Infancy 1 month to 1 year• Toddler 1 year to 3 years• Preschool child 3 – 5 years• School child 5 – 18 years• Child 0 – 15 years• Adolescent late 15 – 18 years

THE SCOPE OF PEDIATRICSIntroduction to Pediatric Course by Prof. I. Alayed

To some, pediatrics seems a difficult, demanding and sad specialty, one that deals largely with serious ill or dying babies and children. It seems frustrating to think of being unable to explain pain and suffering or to provide comfort to small children. Some see the suffering and disability of children as overwhelming and ask themselves why any physician would choose this career path.

To those of us who have been “called” to the practice of pediatrics, it is quite a different picture. True, there is incredible sadness at the death of a child. Often there is great frustration at being unable to do more for children whose lives are profoundly affected by disease and disability. But there is so much more. Pediatricians have an ability to learn from, laugh with, and be strengthen by children. Pediatrics forces us to stand in awe of children and their families in the face of enormous challenges. It is a truly wonderful world of medical practice.

Pediatrics is first the practice of the science of growth and development. It demands a deep appreciation of the unique nature of childhood and adolescent, the impact of disease on growth and development, and the effects of growth and development on the manifestation of disease. Interventions early in the child’s life have significant lifelong benefits, just as errors in judgment or ignorance about medical or developmental realities can have profound, lifelong negative effects. Nowhere else in the practice of medicine are the consequences so significant. They affect not only the child’s future physical health and function, but also the youngster’s sense of self-worth and later, in adulthood, personal integrity.

THE SCOPE OF PEDIATRICS


Pediatrics is uniquely dependent on, and committed to families. The family comes in

many shapes and sizes, but it is the primary environment in which the child’s potential is

nourished. Child health care depends largely on the story of illness and disability as told by

parents. The child’s health is always the parent’s responsibility, but good pediatricians recognize

that their job is to work in alliance with the family. When the family ability to deal with the health

concerns of the children is exceeded, then health professionals assist and support families in their

task.

Empowering families to car e for their children is a major task of pediatrics. It

involves health education and health promotion, especially in light of increasing dependence on

health professionals for all aspects of child health care. It also involves a respectful recognition

that today many families assume extraordinary complex tasks in the care of their children. For

that special group of children with chronic or major life-threatening illnesses, pediatricians

become partners in care and advocates for increasing family support.

THE SCOPE OF PEDIATRICS


The commitment of pediatrics to families cover the entire spectrum, from

providing health education to normal children to providing information, assistance and

support for families that must assume enormous burdens of care related to major illness.

That commitment must include advocacy and protection for the familial

societal values that sustain a healthy family environment.

To be sure, pediatrics has its frustrations, such as children who are ill, in

pain, dying or suffering the anguish that comes with learning to live with disease,

deformity or disability.


But it is also a specialty whose practitioners marvel daily at the courage and determination of children to get on with the business of growing and developing.

Children are amazingly courageous. Trailing a forest of intravenous poles with abundant monitors and machinery, armies of children are pushed and pulled to the hospital playroom and gift shop. Following surgical procedures that would keep an adult horizontal for a week with nasogastric tubes and ventilator support, children rally overnight and display an incredible appetite for life. Developing an appreciation of their courage is a great gift to medical practitioners.

Children are unhesitatingly honest. No other patients are so direct and frank about their relationship with their physician. The pomp and circumstance that may color other specialties pales in the presence of a toddler who “needs to pee” in the middle of the professor’s masterful brilliance during ward rounds. Nowhere else is insensitivity and inappropriate behavior so disruptive of the physician–patient relationship. Children react sharply to condescension. They display an instinctive need to know the truth and they respond to any dissonance between family and professional reactions and what is told to them. While children’s need to know must be met in developmentally appropriate ways, a cardinal rule of pediatrics is “never lie to a child.” Following this rule can be difficult and requires delicacy, but truth us an essential element of the art of pediatrics.


Children are also incredibly funny. The atmosphere of a pediatric hospital differs from that of most adult health care facilities because children play and laugh among themselves and with those who care for them. Their laughter is the most potent therapy to caregivers.

Gone are the days when moderately ill children were cared for by parents and “really sick” children were hospitalized, attended exclusively by “professionals” (physicians and nurses). The practice of modern pediatrics sees parents coping with outpatient chemotheraphy , home ventilators, ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, and home enteral feeding. Paradoxically, almost every pediatric ward or institution also cares for inappropriately met, or who are in danger of abuse or neglect because of difficult, disturbed, or stressful family circumstances.

Pediatrics has emerged as a distinct medical specialty over the past century. The changing pattern of morbidity and mortality in children reflects advances in nutrition, hygiene, immunization and antibiotic therapy. Infectious disease, long the major cause of death in infancy and childhood, is no longer as great a threat as it once was. Advances in obstetrical and perinatal care have revolutionized newborn health and survival. But a “new pediatric morbidity” has emerged over the past decade, compromising issues that range from developmental and learning difficulties to concerns regarding abuse, neglect, depression, eating disorders, and suicide in adolescents.

Contrast between main child health problems and associated factors in developed and developing countries


Course Objectives

General Objective To graduate a physician who acquired adequate basic knowledge and skills in pediatrics, that will enable him/her to proceed into subsequent general practice, specialty training or research activities and to be aware of the personal qualities and attitudes required to care for children and their families. (e.g. empathy, concern, gentleness, etc.)

Specific objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to1. Acquire the knowledge related to community problems of child health.2. Know the preventive aspects of childhood health problems and its implementation3. Recognize urgent and emergency situations in pediatrics and be able to outline an appropriate initial plan

of action to stabilize such patients.4. Record and interpret a complete physical examination across all pediatric age group.5. Identify and solve common clinical problems in pediatrics by providing a provisional diagnosis and

appropriate differential diagnosis.6. Outline a general plan of investigations and management of common pediatric problems, especially as

they relate to Saudi Arabia.7. Use and interpret the laboratory investigations to reach a diagnosis of common pediatric problems.8. Recognize his limitations concerning management of pediatric patients and the need to consult and

cooperate with others to provide optimum care.9. Interact with children and their parents or relatives in a gentle, emphatic and appropriate manner.


Course components

• Lectures• Tutorials• Clinical Examination Orientation• Clinical Teaching Sessions• Ward Rounds• Emergency Shifts• Outpatient clinic hours• Nursery orientation• Clerking


Course datesDuration – 12 weeks

Dates – from 08/11/1436 (23 August 2015) to 30/01/1437 (12 November 2015)

Week 1 to 3 – Lectures and Clinical Examination Orientation

Week 4 to 7 – Tutorials and Bedside Teaching

Week 7 – Mid-Cycle Examination Thursday (02/01/1437) 15 October 2015

Week 8 to 11 – Bedside Clinical Teaching and Other Activities

Week 12 – Final Written and Clinical Examination Final Written Exam : Monday (27/01/1437) 09 November 2015 Final Clinical Exam (OSCE) : Thursday (30/01/1437) 12 November 2012


Course Evaluation & AssessmentIncourse & continuous assessment - 40 marks

Clerking - 4Case Presentation - 3Log book - 2Professional Attitude - 2Clinical Skills Lab - 2DxR cases - 2__________________ Cont. Assessment -15Mid-Cycle MCQ & MEQ -25

40 marks

Final Examination MCQ & MEQ - 40 marks Clinical Examination (OSCE) - 20 marks


Course Books, Resources, References & Websites


WEBSITES FOR STUDENT EDUCATIONWWW.COMPSED.ORG

ON LINE CASES

WWW.BRIGHTFUTURES.COM – (BRIGHT FUTURES CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC EDUCATION)

WWW.VIRTUALPEDIATRICHOSPITAL.ORG – (VIRTUAL HOSPITAL )

WWW.GENERALPEDIATRICS.COM

RADIOLOGY CASES IN PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE

WWW.LEARNPEDIATRICS.COM

WWW.PEDIATRICEDUCATION.ORG

WWW.MEDICALPPT.BLOGSPOT.COM


http://www.compsed.org/

http://www.brightfutures.com/

http://www.virtualpediatrichospital.org/

http://www.generalpediatrics.com/

http://www.learnpediatrics.com/

http://www.pediatriceducation.org/

http://www.medicalppt.blogspot.com/

TEACHING CLASS MANNERS


Dear Students,

Please take note of the following manners & behaviors during teaching sessions (lecture or bedside teaching);

1. You have to comply with the agreed college dress code for students. Students wearing differently will not be allowed to attend the class.

2. Student should be seated in the class on time. Late comers will not be allowed to join class & will be regarded as absent.

3. Chewing gum, drinking, eating and inappropriate talking to colleagues disturbing the class is strictly prohibited.

4. Sick or sleepy students are not supposed to attend class. Permission or sick leave is a better alternative.

5. Bleeps and cellular phones are expected to be inactive during the class.

6. Teacher have the right not to grant permission for attending class and expected to send students away if none of the above manners were observed.

… Thank you …

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